Then either make your comment and eat the downvotes or just don't make the comment at all. You're functionally complaining that a Facebook anti-vax group isn't listening to your science.
A Nazi and an "undesirable" are locked in a room together. You give the Nazi a gun, but somehow, magically, you haven't made their soon-to-be murder victim "more vulnerable". But if I say "stop giving guns to fucking fascists", I'm the one making people "more vulnerable".
Of course, it doesn't end there. When people ask you why the fuck you're always giving Nazis guns, your answer is "well the minority could have had a gun too, so they'd have been even, but only the Nazi asked".
But "evening the odds" by arming neither? Nope, that's unacceptable, the odds can only be evened with guns.
Sounds to me like you've been getting your opinions from racists and people who profit from gun sales and you haven't even noticed.
It's cool, we don't need to, because you're going to shoot the problem better with your guns, the moment you've finished letting the internet know how tough and cool you are.
Probably safe to leave it for a few more summary executions of minorities and domestic terrorist attacks trageting children though right?
This isn't an 80s action movie, Clyde - come live in the real world for a while, won't you?
Oh so you're not going to fix the problem by shooting it now?
Sounds like you went limp the moment you had to offer actual steps for people to follow.
So you basically admit that you have no way of dealing with the most dangerous, most unaccountable, and most thoroughly funded white supremacist institution to ever exist
It's pretty clear your entire plan is "gun" and honestly, that's already being too kind to it. You can't even connect your fantasy to reality, let along make it happen.
Your toxic liberal feel-good morality means squat to me.
Of course it doesn't, you're a self-absorbed fuckwit who expects other people to die for their hobby and hero fantasies. I never expected any different.
I just didn't want your bullshit propaganda infecting anyone with a mind worth changing because the sooner people see through it, the sooner the problem can be fixed.
It doesn't matter, the pro-gun community will hook them up with either private sales that don't require a background check or an infinite supply of poorly secured firearms.
After all, executing your family shouldn't just be for legal gun owners.
You can argue all you like that political systems like communism and socialism may have lead to things like corruption, famine, wars and genocide but ultimately, the people who support those systems are seeking a fairer way to run society for all people and believe in it despite its history.
Head over to the far-right and the genocide is the point. They want "undesirables" to be killed, enslaved or completely repressed.
Yes, the ones that come after major reforms to training and accountability, that you haven't shot your way to, despite insisting that it's not just possible, but ideal.
Only of course its not win/win/win because even if that was the solution to gun violence, thousands of people will die before you accomplish it and thousands more will die as you say "damn that didn't work after all, better move on to some other plan while staunchly opposing gun control".
It doesn't matter what gun violence is a symptom of, we always control symptoms as we look for a cure.
This is the country you have now and the problem you have now. I don't give a fuck if it wasn't a problem 50 years ago and you don't think it will be a problem 50 years from now.
Then why aren't you shooting them? Why isn't this solved if you have the solution to this problem that's life or death for so many people?
Is it because your solution doesn't work? Is it because you want other people to do the dying and life imprisonment? Or is it because you only want to point to the problem to drum up gun sales?
There's no possible out from here that makes you a good person, let alone a hero.
your only solution to all this is to disarm the people most likely to be targeted by these fascists?
Do you have a head injury? My solution is to not arm the white supremacists, even if it inconveniences gun owners.
Meanwhile, your solution is to enthusiastically arm white supremacists over and over again and when they gun down as many, blame the victims for not carrying a gun with them at all times.
How is anyone supposed to believe you're not a white supremacist or simp to the gun lobby?
I guess it's true what they say... the only thing fascism really needs to flourish is a bunch of liberals to furrow the ground for them.
They seem to be flourishing well enough with their AR-15s and your no-strings-attached support.
If you have the solution, why isn't it solved? Go out and shoot somebody and fix it.
You're comparing to the global average because you're a clown. You need countries with extreme poverty and factional violence dragging up the average because without them, the homicide rate is the U.S is clearly far higher than it should be.
Even then, it's still higher then the global average of 6.1, despite all your promises that selling guns to dumbfucks lowers the crime rate. If that were even a little bit true, America would be the safest country in the world, not "struggling to hit average".
completely ignore the major factors (welfare state, strong poverty controls, strong worker protections, universal healthcare, etc.)
Uh huh. Let us know when you've finished fixing all that and you can have your guns back.
Until then, all you're doing is admitting that yet another one of your pro-gun promises is bullshit -- the guns do absolutely nothing to keep the government in line and you're unable to get even the basic health, welfare and worker systems that other countries have.
Ohio was once a key swing state.
It's okay, you can just admit that it was a vote and you didn't shoot anybody to make it happen. You don't have to pretend that secretly it's guns to thank, rather than all the people who actually worked to get those votes heard.
Of course, progressives pushing for things like bodily autonomy do get plenty of death threats from gun owners, but you probably don't want to take credit for those.
Best of luck on your relationship with your children. I'm sure they don't mind coming second to your gun collection, even as a record number of teenagers blow their brains out with the gun their father bought to "keep his family safe".
It's good of you to accidentally acknowledge that irrational fear is the number one seller of guns and they'd be decimated without it. How many do you own again?
But of course we both know that wasn't your point, you just want to manipulate people into not challenging you. It's been an explict strategy of the far-right for around 5 years now, so it's no surprise to see it used for gun laws that inordinately benefit them.
I sleep soundly knowing that racially-motivated concealed-carry bans, originating in the former slave states shortly after the civil war
Cool fantasy, but the rest of the world solved their civil rights problems sooner and didn't need to routinely arm criminals, idiots and domestic terrorists to accomplish it.
I sleep soundly knowing that US murder rates are a fraction of global rates
Damn, you're really betting a lot on people just not fact checking you.
Here is a list of countries by homicide rate. Have a look at the company the U.S keeps around position 50, or the embarrassing collection of countries with a better homicide rate.
What a surprise, you're full of shit. Not only is Americas homicide rate abysmal thanks to people like you arming criminals and turning disagreements into murders, people are much safer in other wealthy countries, all of which have stricter gun laws.
This is especially true for minorities, who don't have people like yourself selling them out to extremists.
I am thrilled that the people of Ohio just enshrined reproductive rights in our constitution. Further, we attacked the racially-motivated "war on drugs" with a referendum legalizing and regulating recreational marijuana.
Who did you shoot to make it happen? Looks to me like you just voted, then tried to claim other people's work as the work of guns.
Why are your reproductive rights even under attack if all those cool guns prevent your rights being taken away? It wouldn't have anything to do with the party that takes $16 million in legal bribes from the gun lobby each year would it?
Then either make your comment and eat the downvotes or just don't make the comment at all. You're functionally complaining that a Facebook anti-vax group isn't listening to your science.